Larraitz Uria


2016

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Evaluating the Noisy Channel Model for the Normalization of Historical Texts: Basque, Spanish and Slovene
Izaskun Etxeberria | Iñaki Alegria | Larraitz Uria | Mans Hulden
Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'16)

This paper presents a method for the normalization of historical texts using a combination of weighted finite-state transducers and language models. We have extended our previous work on the normalization of dialectal texts and tested the method against a 17th century literary work in Basque. This preprocessed corpus is made available in the LREC repository. The performance of this method for learning relations between historical and contemporary word forms is evaluated against resources in three languages. The method we present learns to map phonological changes using a noisy channel model. The model is based on techniques commonly used for phonological inference and producing Grapheme-to-Grapheme conversion systems encoded as weighted transducers and produces F-scores above 80% in the task for Basque. A wider evaluation shows that the approach performs equally well with all the languages in our evaluation suite: Basque, Spanish and Slovene. A comparison against other methods that address the same task is also provided.

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Combining Phonology and Morphology for the Normalization of Historical Texts
Izaskun Etxeberria | Iñaki Alegria | Larraitz Uria | Mans Hulden
Proceedings of the 10th SIGHUM Workshop on Language Technology for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, and Humanities

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SemEval-2016 Task 2: Interpretable Semantic Textual Similarity
Eneko Agirre | Aitor Gonzalez-Agirre | Iñigo Lopez-Gazpio | Montse Maritxalar | German Rigau | Larraitz Uria
Proceedings of the 10th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2016)

2015

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UBC: Cubes for English Semantic Textual Similarity and Supervised Approaches for Interpretable STS
Eneko Agirre | Aitor Gonzalez-Agirre | Iñigo Lopez-Gazpio | Montse Maritxalar | German Rigau | Larraitz Uria
Proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval 2015)

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SemEval-2015 Task 2: Semantic Textual Similarity, English, Spanish and Pilot on Interpretability
Eneko Agirre | Carmen Banea | Claire Cardie | Daniel Cer | Mona Diab | Aitor Gonzalez-Agirre | Weiwei Guo | Iñigo Lopez-Gazpio | Montse Maritxalar | Rada Mihalcea | German Rigau | Larraitz Uria | Janyce Wiebe
Proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval 2015)

2004

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The Basque lexical-sample task
Eneko Agirre | Itziar Aldabe | Mikel Lersundi | David Martínez | Eli Pociello | Larraitz Uria
Proceedings of SENSEVAL-3, the Third International Workshop on the Evaluation of Systems for the Semantic Analysis of Text